Surgery and Critical Care Coding

This article was first published in the Fall 2020 issue of Critical Connections . When a patient ends up in the ICU, the line between surgery and critical care is difficult to find.

Year in Review: Surgery

This is a presentation from the 47th Critical Care Congress on surgery.

Transthoracic Echocardiography Examination

This is a complimentary chapter from the textbook: Comprehensive Critical Care Ultrasound, Second Edition  

Basics: Physics, Modalities, and Image Acquisition

This is a complimentary chapter from the textbook: Comprehensive Critical Care Ultrasound, Second Edition  

Complications of Solid Organ Transplantation

This is a presentation from the 2017 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on complications of solid organ transplantation.

How Rapid Diagnostic Testing Can Improve Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients

The limits of traditional culture techniques can create challenges in the diagnosis and management of critically ill ICU patients. The syndromic approach to rapid molecular diagnostics can lead to faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive results. Join us as presenters dis...

Ultrasound Images That You Should Know

T his is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on ultrasound.

Topics in Transplant Surgery

This is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on  Transplant Surgery  

ICU Complications of Gastrointestinal Surgery

This is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on Complications of Gastrointestinal Surgery  

Anesthesia Topics: Pre- and Intraoperative

This is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on Pre- and Intraoperative

Anesthesia Topics: Postoperative

This is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on Anesthesia

Cardiovascular Surgery, Including Surgical Complications and Mechanical Devices (LVADs, Pacemakers, Defibrillators)

This is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on Cardiovascular Surgery.

Board Review Session: Surgery and Anesthesiology

This is a presentation from the 2016 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC) on Surgery and Anesthesiology  

Ethical and Policy Considerations in Organ Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death

An Official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement. This statement is designed to provide a framework to g...

Management of the Potential Organ Donor in the ICU

This document was developed through the collaborative efforts of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations.  The goal of this consensus statement is to provide critical care practit...

Bedside General and Cardiac Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Critically Ill Patients—Part I

Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Bedside General and Cardiac Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Critically Ill Patients—Part I: General Ultrasonography aims to establish evidence-based guidelines for the use of bedside ultrasound by intensivists and specialists in the I...

Appropriate Use of Bedside General and Cardiac Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Critically Ill Patients: Part II

Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Bedside General and Cardiac Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Critically Ill Patients—Part II: Cardiac Ultrasonography aims to establish evidence-based guidelines for the use of bedside cardiac ultrasound, echocardiography, in the ICU a...

SCCM Pod-120 CCM: Tracheostomy Practice in the Surgical ICU

Bradley D. Freeman, MD, discusses his article published in the December 2009 issue of Critical Care Medicine, titled “Examination of Non-Clinical Factors Affecting Tracheostomy Practice in an Academic Surgical Intensive Care Unit.”

SCCM Pod-132 The Future of Acute Care Surgery

Lewis J. Kaplan, MD, FCCM, discusses acute care surgery, its relation to surgical critical care, and his predictions for the future of acute care surgery, trauma surgery and surgical critical care.

SCCM Pod-133 CCM: Human Factors to Medication and Patient Safety in the ICU

Matthew C. Scanlon, MD, discuses is article, “Value of Human Factors to Medication and Patient Safety in the Intensive Care Unit,” published as part of a supplement to the June 2010 issue of Critical Care Medicine.